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Miretzky, Debra A. – Multicultural Education, 2010
Social foundations courses, and in particular any course that has to do with multiculturalism or diversity, can be land mines for teacher educators seeking to provide experiences that may be "partisan" but also "educative". This article explores the tensions of teaching multiculturalism classes to undergraduate teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Cultural Pluralism, Student Journals, Teacher Educators
Nardone, Virginia – Journal of Business Education, 1981
Business educators must teach word-processing concepts to business administration students. While administrators are not the operators, they are the users in that they prepare material for input and use the output. (JOW)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business Administration, Business Skills, Concept Teaching
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Jago, Wendy – Studies in Higher Education, 1981
The history and decline of an undergraduate interdisciplinary course on contemporary Britain at the University of Sussex are described. It is suggested that interdisciplinary courses require higher investment of resources and commitment to survive, and structural constraints and features are of continuing concern to their proponents. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Content, Course Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Dean, Claire Treseler – Performance and Instruction, 1988
Discusses the advantages of using story board techniques to design a course in computer based training, and describes the use of HyperCard to create the story boards directly on the computer screen. The discussion covers HyperCard's software capabilities, programing language, and print features. (CLB)
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software, Course Content
Trank, Douglas M. – Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, 1985
Reviews surveys on the status of the basic speech communication course. Identifies issues and concerns about instructional approaches, staffing, textbooks, philosophy, etc. (PD)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Evaluation, Higher Education, Speech Communication
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Davis, O. L., Jr. – International Journal of Social Education, 1991
Suggests that citizenship education has been defined too literally and narrowly, resulting in loss of meaning for social studies. Argues that schools in the United States rest on solid civic motivations and were never intended to legitimate any particular school subject. Insists that every school subject must be understood to be based on civic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Course Content, Course Evaluation, Democracy
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Viney, Wayne; Crosby, Donald A. – Teaching of Psychology, 1991
Discusses an interdisciplinary course on the psychology and philosophy of William James. Describes course organization and goals. Explains that the course includes sections on James' life and personal characteristics, his psychological and philosophical works, and specific psychological and philosophical topics that he addressed. Assesses…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Evaluation, Course Organization, Educational Objectives
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Oltmann, Klaus; Schleiffer, Gerd – Zielsprache Englisch, 1979
Calls for reexamination of English courses, as to content, organization, and procedures. Adds a report of experience with language workrooms at "general education schools" in Bremen, and some suggestions regarding intensive courses. (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Evaluation, Course Organization, English (Second Language)
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Heafford, Michael – Language Learning Journal, 1995
Presents a critical overview of several Greek textbooks and courses on the basis of 11 factors: textbook aims, methodological guidance, tape and book, language skills, relevant language, information about language, contextual information, language of negotiation, vocabulary layout, motivation, memory, and others. (CK)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Evaluation, Greek, Instructional Materials
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Wilson, Lizabeth A. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1987
Discusses the need to prepare library school graduates for bibliographic instruction responsibilities, and describes the background, development, implementation, and evaluation of a course offered at the University of Illinois which combined bibliographic instruction theory and practice. Recommendations for future education in bibliographic…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Evaluation, Course Objectives, Higher Education
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Casagrande, Diane O.; Croddy, W. Stephen – Journal of General Education, 1985
Describes an interdisciplinary writing course organized around the theme of language as used by individual disciplines. Reports a significant improvement in students' writing skills, exposure to a breadth of issues to which these skills might be applied in students' respective majors, and an enthusiastic response to the approach. (DMM)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Higher Education
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Nast, Heidi J. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1999
Calls attention to the difficulties of broaching issues of "race" and "sex" in the classroom context of nationwide calls for multiculturalism. Discusses the current politics surrounding the importance of student course evaluations, and presents strategies for making evaluations more useful in the context of courses that include controversial…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Evaluation, Educational Practices, Geography Instruction
Clements, Douglas H. – 1982
Arguments for the inclusion of computers in the schools and guidelines for the effective use of computers in educational settings introduce this outline of a college course designed to train students and teachers to successfully utilize microcomputers in prekindergarten through third-grade classrooms. The argument is made that, since computers are…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Course Content, Course Evaluation, Course Objectives
Muir, Janette Kenner – 1995
When an instructor was asked to serve as the second vice president for the Eastern Communication Association, she found ways to incorporate her students into the process of convention planning. To assist her in her duties she developed a special topics course in applied communication that required the students to carry out much of the work for the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Evaluation, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Purdy, Leslie – 1983
Telecourses differ in fundamental ways from regular college courses; i.e., faculty are not the only ones involved in telecourse design and production; colleges are not the sole funding agencies for their production; and telecourses are designed to be marketed, rather than to be offered by a single institution. These differences mean that…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Community Colleges, Conventional Instruction, Course Content
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